The Good News!
14 Jul 2012
Let's consider for a minute the achievements and successes of the Environmental-Conservation-Professional Protest Movement in the Antipodes Islands in the last 20 years
Let's consider for a minute the achievements and successes of the Environmental-Conservation-Professional Protest Movement in the Antipodes Islands in the last 20 years. We have
basked in the oxygen of publicity given to us by the MSM. Press releases and cheap publicity stunts are turned instantly, effortlessly and continuously into headline TV, radio and newspaper stories. Bravo!
stealthily metamorphosed primary schools around the country into environmentalist madrasas. There is now no person in the Antipodes Islands under the age of 20 that hasn't been brainwashed by sustainability propaganda. Excellent!
obtained agreement among 97% of all climate scientists that environmental activism is caused by humans. This contrasts with general public opinion which blames 100% of protests on activists. Praise indeed!
raised millions of dollars in street corner appeals, sausage sizzles and subscriptions from long-suffering members to funnel straight to lawyers. Despite most of the legal cases being frivolous, expensive and lost, the cash keeps on rolling in. Congratulations!
successfully introduced palatable, anodyne euphemisms in place of edgy, controversial, less-marketable words. Examples include Rainforest (Jungle), Wetland (Bog), Environment (Earth), Climate Change (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming), Dirty Energy (from coal), Clean Energy (from giant noisy windmills or ugly hydro dams), Activist (Whinger), Visual Pollution (I don't like how that looks), Unprecedented (Once in an Environmentalist's lifetime), Extreme Weather Event (Unusual Weather), Tipping Point (Extreme Weather Event), Sustainability (within the intellectual limits of an environmentalist). Great stuff!
perfected the use of the conditional when describing alarmist climate scenarios to politicians and the public. Words such as could, might, maybe, possibly, perhaps, conceivably and up to roll easily off the tongue and come across as if disaster is inevitable. Well done!
covertly used cherry picking, fake experts, misrepresentation, logical fallacies and conspiracy theories to support pro-Environmentalist arguments while successfully accusing opponents of using the exact same methods. Wow!
stopped global warming 16 years ago in 1998. Plaudits? Unfortunately, this signal achievement seems to have gone largely unnoticed by most of our fellow environmentalists